Consent Quotes - page 3

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent. (Gary Shteyngart)
You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent. View quote
Joseph Murphy
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that. View quote
Georgette Heyer
We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication. View quote
T.D. Jakes
Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent. View quote
Arthur Nielsen
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. View quote
Adrian Cronauer
Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union. View quote
Charles E. Wilson
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. View quote
DeForest Soaries
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. View quote
E. Stanley Jones
There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent. (Jeff Merkley)
I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married. View quote
John Entwistle
Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected. View quote
John Redwood
Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry. View quote
Laura Ingraham
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper. View quote
Mary Lou Williams
The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent. View quote
Matt Blunt
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent. View quote
Pierre Laval
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. View quote
Patricia Ireland
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted. View quote
Richard V. Allen
So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent. View quote
Robert McChesney
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time. (Simon Winchester)
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. View quote
Tom G. Palmer
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms. View quote
Zebulon Pike
Any effort, policy or program that has as a prerequisite the acceptance of the notion that blacks are inferior is a non-starter with me. I do not believe that kneeling is a position of strength. Nor do I believe that begging is an effective tactic. I am confident that the individual approach, not the group approach, is the better, more acceptable, more supportable and less dangerous one. This approach is also consistent with the underlying principles of this country and the guarantees of freedom through government by consent. I, like Frederick Douglass, believe that whites and blacks can live together and be blended into a common nationality. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Never will be salvaged the people who win the consent of the creature, at the cost of the dissatisfaction of the creator. View quote
Husayn ibn Ali